skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But hasn't e-sports been around for a long time, such as teens in Asia playing World of Warcraft, StarCraft, and other games competitively? When did this become a new thing? From what I understand, e-sports never caught on in the US like is has in China, Hong Kong, Korea, etc.
Have watched both, very different shows but brilliant in their own way.

The first season of HCF in particular was spectacular (the others are still amazing but for a first season HCF smashed it out the park).
Another happy Linode user here. They might not have the nicest interface, but their service is top notch and I much prefer their UI to Digital Ocean's any day of the week. I've been with Linode for ten years now.
Funny that you say this. TSLA is the mother of all pump and dumps, but it'll take a while for this to play out. Not driven by WSB of course.

But yeah, they don't always win for sure.

Still, there are a few gems in that sub if you know where to look imho. Do they have a crystal ball? Certainly not. But it's interesting for its different perspective.
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They did go out of their way. Look at the efforts Georgia went to - extra hands counts etc.

Didn't make any difference at all. It's very easy to throw doubt on something when people want it to be wrong.
Animals higher up on the food chain don't need force. Many get to know the habits of their prey to entice them without forcing them to do anything. Prey is a very appropriate word when talking about this kind of marketing and manufactured consent.
I think no open source project should have a maintainer who answers the question of how to make the project succeed in the future with:

“Keep me alive” [1]

[1] https://www.binpress.com/vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-intervie...
Interesting. Can you confirm my ELI5 understanding of it? Is it that we could potentially claim that QM is not really random, we simply do not have all the data (like predicting a dice roll without accounting for the roughness of the surface). But then, experimental evidence contradicts this claim. Correct?
I've also had "legitimate interest" used as a catch-all reply when you raise any concerns internally.

It reminds me of "reasonable" wording in English law.
> The problem with publicly posting their photos is it completely negates any fair justice.

Both private and government posting of pictures (or drawings from descriptions) of people suspected to be involved in or of interest related to a crime, without any kind of prior judicial process or clearance, is routine, not punishment, and doesn’t alter the role of process required for punishment. It does not “negate fair justice”. Nor are they “presented as guilty” on this site, even in the sense that people might be said to be “presented as guilty” when featured in a wanted poster.

> Then who defines how they should be held accountable?

A court, as usual. The page ask for rioters identified by the combination of still face photo and linked video to be reported to the FBI, and provide the FBI’s tip link.
That's where the idea started but that means the user has to be able to send Bitcoin. The purpose of Interledger is to abstract away that issue which is why Web Monetization is built on Interledger.

You don't have to sign up with Coil to earn. There are other wallets that are on the Interledger network such as Uphold and Gatehub that can give you a payment pointer to put into your site's HTML. If you want your earnings to be converted to BTC that's possible I think.
I'm pretty happy that GDRP finally starts being used to limit that type of data agglutination. Max Schrems and NYOB are doing a great job pushing for better privacy protection in Europe. I just hope that the big ones also either change their behavior or get forced to account for it.
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So, we finally see IBM showing its ugly face. No more CentOS.
I just realized that, even though I use vim every day and work on open-source software for a living, I have no idea what vim's open source model looks like. It's been such an out-of-the-way tool for me that I treat it like a pencil. It's just there, waiting for me to use it.

Nuts.
People still use macOS, which is the main reason I see "please add libtool support" these days.
Are optical media vulnerable to radiation as well?
I'm currently evaluating pfSense, mostly due to it supporting WireGuard in the kernel level and having a good adblocker plugin. I run the router in a lab setting, so now it's the time to still change the os if needed.

But, to what? I like to have a web ui and collectd metrics out of it. And the performance should be good for over twenty devices, VPN and a gigabit network...
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Do these "atomic" clocks that get synched by an external ER source account for the (minute) travel time of said ER source? I'm assuming they do.
Nonsense.

There are many countries which are far more legitimate then a decommissioned cargo ship, yet will never be accepted. In short, unless a lot of other countries have an interest in recognizing your country it will not happen.

If even one legitimate country has a problem with it its almost impossible and will require a war.
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I was going to start using it, then found out it does some shady things.

I can't find the article but it was like "over 500,000 installations of pfsense!" ... turns out they got that number because every copy phones home.
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What happens if nobody sells? Say 40% of total shares are floating. You the hedge fund owe 60% of the shares because you shorted them. Even if your position is closed immediately (hint, it won't), you would still need to find the remaining 20% of the shares that you owe. Who will give you that 20%? Well I of course, but the difference is, I get to dictate what the market price is.

We saw this happen in 2008 with Volkswagen. 1% of the total shares were floating because Porché had purchased the remaining, the rest of the shares were owned by institutions and they were not selling them.
The Government will throw big ice cubes into the Ocean to re-freeze it.
Problem solved.
This looks on topic, but post that are not in English are usually ignored or flagged unless they are very good and there is no equivalent information in English. (I guess there are many articles about php configuration.)

If you have an English translation, try to post it. (Or at least use the translated title instead of "news".)
I wear glasses with similar lens as yours. I only realized I had myopia after starting to go to university, and I only realized I had astigmatism around 2 years later. I guess the brain learns to correct the image, at the expense of some headache if you depend too much on it.
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That's the thing, there is essentially one FFT algorithm. If you want to include a big family of algorithms as Monte Carlo you better make place for it further down the line after Euler integration or possibly just numerical integration, and it's starting to become a question if maybe the list should simply be "addition and multiplication but with computers".
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. To my knowledge they don't have nuclear weapons or big raders that can detect stealth planes.

Their Airforce consist of less than 20 aircraft. I don't know if you consider that air superiority.

You are spot on about having a large standing army. According to wikipedia they have 1850.000 enlisted!
> I never understood the concept of "optional" library. Either your program requires a library or it doesn't.

The program may have an optional feature that requires a library. It does not make sense to force everyone to install it, if such feature is used by 1 % of users. Example might be mplayer, where there are common decoding libraries used by everyone and also plenty of obsure decoding libraries.

Even better is to use dlopen() to open the optional library in runtime, to fit in distribution package management paradigm, but this requires much more work than simple option to disable dependency at compile time, and even with it it is useful to have ability do disable optional dependency at compile time to avoid requiement for header files.
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I use my Gemini, but not heavily. It's a great PDA but not an acceptable phone. Mobile data is useful though - and it's great for on-the-go programming.

I have backed the AstroSlide though which should cover all the bases: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...
Also check https://github.com/Feh/nocache
Ask HN: Weird Moments in Technical Interviews
The moment when interviewee revealed his/her googling skills against the palindrome question.
I'm a researcher in ML security.

I also have five years experience in music copyright and royalties. I still know stuff about weird esoteric distribution policies PRS for Music has, like the Educational Recording Agreement or how the pubs and clubs scheme analogous apportionment of £40 million worked.

Then there's the digital signals synthesis techniques I've had to learn in the last two years as well. Literally building bare bones software based synthesisers.

And then there's all the ML stuff and the security stuff...

So I wholeheartedly disagree with your definition. Knowledge is often much fuzzier than person is working on X, therefore they must only know about X.
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That's correct.

One sensor per MCAS means that only one sensor is used at a time, so if it is installed incorrectly or is faulty. The faulty data is fed into the MCAS. This is what caused the crashes.

The more expensive option packages included dual-AoA sensors. Two AoA sensors per MCAS, and then an AoA disagree alarm that would alert the pilot that the AoA sensors are not in agreement.
Loved the show, and this website looks awesome and seems to contain a massive wealth of information on computing history, bookmarked! Probably my only beef with this show is when he dumps the rom using switches and LEDs, sure you could do that, but you could also be reasonable, and hook it up to a computer and write a lil program to dump it, when you're that smart anyway..
Compare to the median of straight men+women, or the median of straight men? In median, even in Norway women earn on average 80% of men. Assuming sexual orientation otherwise doesn't matter, there should then be a difference between gay men and straight people in general...
How is giving choice between paying with money or paying with data forcing users into signing their rights away?
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This was a straight donation. A thriving Web ecosystem of independent developers and creators building and hosting their own content is what gets us out of bed in the morning.

Credit to Ali Spivak who kicked this all off and helped us realise what a crucial role good platform documentation plays and how important it is to fund good knowledgeable writers.
Surely this is only true to a minimal extent in world where you can already buy timeservers that support multiple independent time sources out of the box (multiple satellite Galileo,GPS etc. + terrestrial radio e.g. DCF77).

IIRC if you're dead serious and money is no object, all the major national time labs also allow you to run a private leased line to their facility for direct checks.
That’s some scary list. I’m glad I’m not a maintainer, the amount of work is paralyzing
Wolverine is your brother-in-law? Dude. You better be good to her.
I imagine the main reason people want bookmark sync is to sync their bookmarks to their Android or Apple smartphone, so you'd need a compatible browser on that end as well.
I am a casual internet user and have no connection to IT industry, but i've been using Firefox practically since the very beginning - I installed v. 1.0.0 back in 2004. It's main selling points for me were: 1) it wasn't IE; 2) easy customizability of the UI layout - FF had as many great themes as Winamp; 3) lots and lots of different plugins and extensions for even more customizability: from AdBlack and Smooth Scrolling to various video downloaders and paywall skips.

And it was great! More importantly it was already a more or less finished product. The updates were slow, sparse in time and didn't change much (it took 3 years to get from v. 1 to v. 3).

Then something changed in 2011 and updates started showering almost every week for no apparent reason. It was annoying and I've completly stopped installing updates after v. 13(everything worked perfectly anyway). Then after 4 or 5 years I started to have a problem with playing youtube and twitch videos, so I decided to finally update my FF. It was already v. 57 (Quantum) and it made me absolutely livid. 2/3 of my extensions weren't working (and still aren't) and the ability to change UI theme was completely gone (and so I am now stuck with that bland default theme). And all that for no visible benefit on my part whatsoever.

I've immediately installed Chrome, Opera and Safari to see if they were any better, but ... they all are almost identical to the new Firefox (although I am now using Opera on mobile). There is almost no incentive to change from one browser to another now.

Well, it's year 2021 now, but somehow my user experience is worse than it was fifteen years ago. How is that possible I do not know.
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No screenshots on github and non on the website. I think that is the very first thing people should do when publishing some kinf of GUI app.

The website has a nice stats page though: http://merkaartor.be/p/stats
UK is connected through DC lines, so frequency is independent. In this case they would have to separate the grid again to be able to correct this.
Have you watched demoscene videos? I think you're overestimating how much information is needed.
What you’re feeling is called Schadenfreude. I wonder how long before enough people realize they made a mistake to trigger another referendum.
If I were to play the hippy mumbo-jumbo part for a moment, I would suggest a trip with Salvia Divinorum to perfectly capture and have a direct perception of what you say in your comment.
Well, now the GDPR gives you 10% of your revenue as a reason for not using SDKs that will not give you control of data collection.

You always had "respect the privacy of users" as a reason not to use them before, but we all know how well that worked.
Re that anecdote, I was just wondering, do they stare at the horizon with glasses on or without?
There is such standard measure but it is the number of transistors for a square millimeter[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Transistor_de...
There was multiple failures, not single.

The grid was separated but it didn't cause more power outages.
They have long legs to eat, and a long neck so they can still drink while having long legs
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We're working to make the Web Monetization API a standard that browsers can adopt natively: https://webmonetization.org

The extension helps us bootstrap the ecosystem but a native integration is far superior. Check out Puma browser for an example of the integrated experience for mobile.
I mean, it's not like sacrificing nature and the climate wasn't an informed choice by the First World.
Call me surprised on that one. The banks were pissed to say the least about the interchange fee cap since it was introduced in 2015 - estimates run on a yearly loss (aka more money in the hands of the consumers) of 1-2 billion € a year (per https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/europeans...). I would not be surprised if the other card networks follow MasterCard here, even if it's just British consumers affected it's still a lot of money that they're leaving on the table.

The "downside" (from an US point of view) on this cap is that European credit cards don't have ridiculous card bonus programs that are in reality subsidized by all people not paying by credit cards.
I would argue that if anything, in our current world of privacy and anonymity-indifferent lawyers, regulators, policy makers, corporate heads and most members of the general public, things like this and the hackers behind them perform a sort of obscene public service in a way: They make everyone at least somewhat leery about trends towards so much of our private lives falling into too many databases, especially when said data is highly personal, financial, medical or location-based (and thus especially compromising in certain contexts)

The reason why? While lawmakers, politicians and corporate heads couldn't give less of a shit about the average joe's privacy, they know that it's increasingly difficult even for them and their own families to stay private from too-pervasive, intrusive data collection, and they also now see ever more often just how near impossible it is to make said data stay secure from mass public leaks. Oops... Their own "optimization" obsessed nosiness maybe biting them back bit by bit.

It would be perversely amusing to see the head of some bullshit ad tracking firm, or bottom-feeding user data reseller, or the head of a snooping social network have their own dirty laundry leaked all over the web for all to see.
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That's what is technically known as "a joke".
How likely is it that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a laboratory?
Sorta, but I do not think the lottery comparison is completely accurate. The lottery is random and has a negative expected value intrinsic to playing. GameStop had already gone up a lot and was in the news even before it doubled on Monday. Same for Tesla. Both had ample opportunism for people to invest/speculate. It is more like, imagine a sequence of lotto tickets being drawn, and you observe that the numbers happen to follow a predictable pattern despite it otherwise assumed to be random. Surely, it would not be unreasonable to assume the pattern would continue, and if did continue, you would probably regret not buying anyway despite otherwise being conditioned to believe that it is random. Do you trust your eyes or your preconceived beliefs? If you see a dollar on the sidewalk (or in the case of GameStop, a Zero Halliburton suitcase full of $100s from call options) and you tell yourself that this is economically impossible, and as you are pondering this, someone snaps up the dollar, you would probably feel miffed.
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Sigh, do we really have to play this game? I'll take the other side.

I wonder what all the EU citizens think who are not getting vaccinated because the EU thought it would play hard ball with the drug companies, who basically went elsewhere as they don't care about EU bureaucratic games?
Firstly, because no one could tell us how it really worked, how does it know what we consider an anomaly

This hits the nail on the head for me. Unless the AI magic handwaving is 100% infallible a human in the loop needs to verify whether there is in fact any problem. Traceability is at least as important as accuracy and statistical methods have a very good track record there.
I kind of understand how one can make money betting against overexposed short sellers, I still have no idea how GameStop can survive as company.
That clip does not show massive failure. Does it show failure? Yes. Is it massive? No.

Did the US court system show massive fraud? No. Did they show fraud that wasn't massive but could still have changed the outcome of the election? No.

Were you cheated out of winning the election? A thousand times no.
Can you explain what makes this seem to be out of sync with this mission focus as you've emphasized? My read of this is their interest in expanding the existing effort somehow, focused initially on MDN. Separate from this doc effort I've wondered why Mozilla hasn't emphasized business opportunities around communications like VPN services, etc until recently as it overlaps with their mission, expertise and appears to be a legitimate business opportunity at scale. It's not my area of knowledge, only a speculation from some observation.
you can learn to run a marathon, cook, etc. with a much higher chance of success then something like trading stocks or to a less degree starting a business. the latter pursuits have a much more volatile environment that rewards luck > skill
> I think this is one of the big differences between junior and senior software developers. You can see juniors get very frustrated with bugs because the code they delivered was 'working'. Seniors realize that software only works within well defined parameters

If that's the case, assuming those juniors have relevant degrees, they weren't paying attention in their lectures on testing. Any decent lecture series on software engineering in general, or on testing specifically, will cover that testing can almost never prove the absence of all bugs, as exhaustive testing is rarely practical. If you want proof of correctness, formal methods are the only game in town.

I like your hierarchy, that's really a neat perspective on correctness, and the tongue can be returned to its preferred posture. Perhaps a fifth entry might be useful, along the lines of As Deployed, to cover bugs in the platform (the compiler, standard library, OS, and hardware). This might not perfectly align with Working As Implemented, unless the implementation is taken to include the platform.
The money quotes:

"From October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%. The EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies."

"Mastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU."

Thus proving the caps were indeed necessary. If MC was making money with a 0.3% fee the other 1.2% are pure sweet profit margin.
> Taboola hasn't been making money by connecting people to content they want to read, but rather by selling passive tracking data

Where did you get this from? Have they published the relative revenues?
Yeah, but personal data is way more profitable. Hence why every popular site puts all the opt-out buttons & privacy terms behind tiny fonts placed in some hidden inconspicuous corner.

I recently stopped thinking of myself as an Internet user on the web but rather an advertising ID holder.
> it was disappointing that states didn’t go out of their way to prove Biden won,

Why should they go out of their way? They have a process. They followed the process. They followed the process of handling challenges to the process (of which there were an inordinate number.) If that doesn't prove it, nothing more is going to.

> because now we have nearly 1/2 the country that isn’t quite sure.

The polls I’ve seen put it closer to 1/4-1/3, not “nearly 1/2”.
I wonder why this is interesting to people on HN.

* Is it Schadenfreude?

* To highlight what EU regulations entail, here a limit on internal fees?

* Is it the reliance on large financial provider networks and an insight in their fees?

I am kind of curious, maybe because I feel that Schadenfreude posts (which was the main reaction when I saw it on reddit) are not exactly the content I expect on HN, but it is not my place to decide that.

edit: restructure comment in an attempt to highlight that this is not just "You shouldn't feel Schadenfreude".
Presumeably, similar arguments could be made in each of the other classes, but none of them work. While these protections might be related to a history of discrimination, they do not apply to some more then others. They apply to everyone in the class equally.
With the Telegraph currently blaming Brexit on Angela Merkel, I think this may take a while.